Monthly Archives: January 2015

Thank you if you responded to the OASIS redevelopment survey over the summer, we have now produced a selection of scenarios which reflect the survey responses. We will be making the survey responses available in due course

The mock up is divided into different scenarios for different types of user: Contractor, HER, Museum etc and each page has a comment area at the bottom. Please use the comments area to leave any feedback you have, positive or negative, as if we don’t know your thoughts now we cannot accommodate them in the final design. We would appreciate your comments even if you are not a user of the current system.

​NEARCH partners enjoying a December hailstorm on their way to start the meeting in York.

ADS was delighted to host the NEARCH partners on 11-12 December, 2014 for both a plenary meeting, and the first of the NEARCH scientific sessions. As it was winter in the north of England, the partners first had to brave a hailstorm, lasting just the few minutes walk from their hotel to the meeting venue!

The competition gave to me …

a windswept Bronze Age site,

a dig team in the office, an icy Roscommon Castle, a Temple to Saturn, Christmas jumpers in the lab, a snowy Silbury Hill, two ‘geofizzing’ students, a snow covered Castle Hill, a sweeping digger in the snow, a frosty Grimspound, a Lewis chess piece, and a snow capped Avebury.

This image was submitted by Spencer Carter of a site hoped to be Mesolithic, but turned out to be Bronze Age, Where have we heard that before…?

The competition gave to me …

a dig team in the office,

an icy Roscommon Castle, a Temple to Saturn, Christmas jumpers in the lab, a snowy Silbury Hill, two ‘geofizzing’ students, a snow covered Castle Hill, a sweeping digger in the snow, a frosty Grimspound, a Lewis chess piece, and a snow capped Avebury.

These photos were submitted by the team from Wessex Archaeology Scotland. It looks there was partaking of mulled wine somewhere along the way!

Related resources

Possible alcohol consumption noted in Pottery consumption and cultural change from M. Pitts 2006 ‘Consumption, deposition and social practice: a ceramic approach to intra-site analysis in late Iron Age to Roman Britain’, Internet Archaeology 21.

The competition gave to me …

an icy Roscommon Castle,

a Temple to Saturn, Christmas jumpers in the lab, a snowy Silbury Hill, two ‘geofizzing’ students, a snow covered Castle Hill, a sweeping digger in the snow, a frosty Grimspound, a Lewis chess piece, and a snow capped Avebury.

Frank Scott submitted this image via Facebook of Roscommon Castle, Ireland. It made a particularly striking panorama when cropped.

The competition gave to me …

a Temple to Saturn,

Christmas jumpers in the lab, a snowy Silbury Hill, two ‘geofizzing’ students, a snow covered Castle Hill, a sweeping digger in the snow, a frosty Grimspound, a Lewis chess piece, and a snow capped Avebury.

Massimo Brando submitted this excellent image of the snow frosted Temple of Saturn in Rome.